Peanut Butter And Banana Milkshake

Hello boys and girls!

You know how you go to a fast food joint or a restaurant and you're browsing through the beverage options on the menu and go, 'Ooh! thick shakes! I want one!' and then you read the list of the overpriced usual suspects of chocolate and strawberry and Oreo (yes, even the Oreo!) and go, 'Meh! I'll just have a beer!'. (No? Must just be me then.)

Now if you're anything like me, I figure you also have sudden urges to guzzle large quantities of ice cold milkshake and then sit back and sigh with contentment with your feet up on the table as you flick through the football games on TV. (Still no? Damn!)

While this isn't exactly cooking, it is still throwing together a bunch of ingredients and crossing your fingers with hope in your eyes and a prayer in your heart (and perhaps a rumble in the tummy) that the result be nothing short of mind-numbingly awesome.

Now while the combination may seem a little strange, I can personally vouch for the explosion of flavour that you will experience and that even after you have drank and chewed your way through a massive glass of this concoction, that you will stick your tongue out to catch the last drop that lies at the bottom of your glass.

You will need the following:

Bananas                          2 (A couple days old)
Peanut butter                  dollop (approximately 1tbsp)
Peanut Butter ice-cream   3 scoops (don't look so forlorn if you don't have any, you can                                       use vanilla. Just add more peanut butter.)
Sugar                              to taste
Milk                                1 glass

Prep:

1. Find your mixer/blender.
2. Mash up the bananas.

Method:

1. Add the mashed bananas to the mixer cup. (Or whatever you blend in using the hand blender.)
2. Add in a dollop of peanut butter.
3. Look around to see if anyone is watching.
4. Lick the peanut butter off the spoon until it's clean.
5. Hold spoon up and wonder why you bother washing up in the first place.
6. Decide not to wash it.
7. Put spoon back into the cutlery drawer.
8. Close drawer.
9. Feel guilty and decide to wash it anyway.
10. Open drawer again only to realize you have no idea which spoon you just put in.
11. Shrug shoulders and get on with it.
12. Add 2 scoops of ice-cream to the mixer cup.
13. Add sugar to taste.
14. Splash in the milk.
15. Put the lid on the mixer cup.
16. Blend the crap out of the mixture.
17. Start pouring the milkshake into the milk glass.
18. Realize it will never fit.
19. Get a much bigger glass.
20. Pour the milkshake into the bigger glass.
21. Add a scoop of ice-cream.
22. Show the milkshake off to whoever is in the vicinity.
23. Grab a spoon to fish out the ice-cream as you drink.
24. Coincidentally grab the spoon you put in without washing.
25. Mentally high-five yourself.
26. Stuff face.
27. Bask in the glory of your successfully executed milkshake.

Tip: Washing spoons after you lick them prevents the spread of germs. Also, try different combinations of milkshakes. The odds that they will suck are pretty low.

And remember, overeating is a myth. A full tummy is a happy tummy!